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Chula Vista officials have not been archiving public records requested under the California Public Records Act. The result is that if anyone wants to revisit a record, they must submit a new request. (The San Diego Union-Tribune, February 4, 2024, by Jeff McDonald) In a victor for transparency, the California Legislature released sexual harassment records promised four years ago. Although state officials claimed there had been no “substantiated” complaints since 2020, the newly released records

The Oregonian lost a battle as a federal judge ordered them not to publish documents it obtained legally on a sex discrimination suit against Nike. An attorney representing the plaintiffs against Nike sent the documents to a reporter then wanted them back. The attorney iled a motion for the return of the documents. (Yahoo!Finance, January 29, 2024, by The Associated Press) The Oregonian plans to appeal the judge’s order contending that it is a violation

UC Berkeley Law School Dean Erwin Chemerinsky with other prominent scholars filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court arguing that Trump’s acts during the January 6 insurrection disqualify him from running for office. They contend that his speech calling for violating the law is not protected under the First Amendment. (San Francisco Chronicle, January 30, 2024, by Bob Egelko) Conservative legal scholar and former judge J. Michael Luttig has been in the forefront in

David Bauder for The Associated Press, January 24, 2024, writes that the news media has still not figured out how to cover ex-president Donald Trump in his live appearances. Does he even justify live coverage when he is likely to make false statements hard to fact-check? Brian Klass of The Atlantic and Margaret Sullivan of The Guardian appeared on NPR December 10, 2023 criticizing how the press is responding to some of Trump’s outrageous comments.